29.2% ▼ -31.8%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 42.8%
- 2016: 34.2%
- 2021: 29.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Paterson · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Paterson
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Paterson recently compared to the rest of the state. Only 29.2% of residents arrived in the last five years, showing a settled population where very few new arrivals are joining the area.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years is much lower than most areas and far below the national figure of 40.7%. This trend has dropped significantly, falling 14 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
No recent arrivals from overseas live here, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 14.9%. This lack of new overseas arrivals has barely changed since 2011.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Paterson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122107/paterson/topic/mobility-location